[syslinux] syslinux: cannot open ldlinux.sys
Eric Wightman
eric at eriemrdd.org
Fri Sep 8 06:46:18 PDT 2006
Thank you again. After I sent the email I stumbled upon how to write the
syslinux.cfg. But that only loaded it, still had the root error. After
reading your response I figured out to copy the code from the thinstation
isolinux.cfg file. Worked, but I had the good old DOS truncated file name
issue so it did not read the next config file from the HD. Did some more
researched and downloaded a DOS LFN tool and everything is working great!
Now that I know what how to set these it up it seems simple, just took some
time to learn it, not too much. I really do appreciate these types of
forums for help.
Eric
> -----Original Message-----
> From: H. Peter Anvin [mailto:hpa at zytor.com]
> Sent: Thursday, September 07, 2006 4:58 PM
> To: Eric Wightman
> Cc: syslinux at zytor.com
> Subject: Re: [syslinux] syslinux: cannot open ldlinux.sys
>
> Eric Wightman wrote:
> > Thank you that worked... But, 2 things, one I guess is my lack of
> > knowledge of programming.
> >
> > I tried creating a syslinux.cfg with the following enter:
> > DEFAULT=vmlinuz
> >
> > It still gives me the boot: prompt.
>
> No equal sign, please.
>
> > I can type in vmlinuz and it will start to load the
> thinstation linux
> > OS but I start getting errors and the caps lock and the
> scroll lock flash.
> > VFS: Cannot open root device"" or 03:06 Please append a correct
> > "root=" boot option Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on
> > 03:06
> >
> > I am sure that is more of a question for the thinstation folks.
>
> You need something like:
>
> default vmlinuz root=<whatever_appropriate>
>
> -hpa
>
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